Day

Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and -most extraordinary of all -he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now -the war took it away. Maybe it took him, too.Now in 1949, employed as an extra in a war film that echoes his real experience, Day begins to recall what he would rather forget...

Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and -most extraordinary of all -he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now -the war took it away. Maybe it took him, too.Now in 1949, employed as an extra in a war film that echoes his real experience, Day begins to recall what he would rather forget...